downloading the beta now...let's see...

5/3/2010 1:08:28 AM

oh shit i thought the beta was coming out today, not just an aishy tyler video about it...

i got TRIXED

5/3/2010 2:32:29 AM

word on the street is late morning pacific time, so anywhere from noon to probably 5

5/3/2010 2:34:13 AM

i'm really looking forward to this beta

5/3/2010 5:15:55 AM

Hell yes, love that this comes on it a Monday because you had a good weekend and were dreading going back to work and then this brightens your otherwise shitty day.

Lets try to get a party going at some point this evening...hopefully it won't be as lagtastic as I fear.

5/3/2010 9:21:10 AM

i'll play with you guys but don't expect shit from me. i suck at halo compared to mw2.

XBL gamertag shadowdenial

5/3/2010 9:50:33 AM

no beta yet...

5/3/2010 11:31:18 AM

Xbox.com is saying around 1:00.

5/3/2010 12:23:53 PM

guess it's mw2 till then

5/3/2010 12:27:15 PM

aisha tyler is hot, i must say...

5/3/2010 12:48:05 PM

Beta is up now.

5/3/2010 1:12:29 PM

woot downloading

go go u-verse! 18% already

[Edited on May 3, 2010 at 1:28 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2010 1:22:21 PM

sooooooo slow

5/3/2010 1:38:33 PM

27%

5/3/2010 1:41:00 PM

Armor Lock is a fucking death trap.

5/3/2010 2:18:18 PM

Quote :

"aisha tyler is hot, i must say..."

YUP

[Edited on May 3, 2010 at 2:32 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2010 2:32:21 PM

I got an email a while back from Xbox Live that said I was getting halo reach beta access as a gift for them cancelling the xbox v1 servers as well as 400 points/3 months.. I got the points/months but I haven't been given access yet.

5/3/2010 2:55:19 PM

Son of a bitch...got my ODST disc today...downloaded it, and it still requires me to have the ODST disc in anytime I want to play Reach! Pretty stupid, considering anyone with a code can download it and play it without using the disc...was looking forward to having Halo that I could play without changing discs or hearing that loud ass disc drive.

/rant, but I still hope I can find a code at some point.

5/3/2010 3:01:37 PM

Still trying to figure out how to assassinate someone.

5/3/2010 3:06:43 PM

^ You have to be behind the other player and hold down the melee button (RB on default).

^^^ Emails are supposed to go out today with those codes, but it could take a day or two to show up.

I can't wait to get on tonight and beat up on some noobs.
Especially the MW2 players that won't be able to spray and pray.

5/3/2010 3:24:59 PM

^Thanks mang.


I like how it gives 3 different game options for the room to vote for.

5/3/2010 3:42:46 PM

worked for a few games and then it stopped and said it can't connect to the halo: reach servers

5/3/2010 5:03:43 PM

After playing for a couple hours...this game sucks.

5/3/2010 5:10:39 PM

i hate how i cant connect to the servers!

i know it isnt fucking unavailable i was just playing on it!

5/3/2010 6:09:52 PM

Quote :

"After playing for a couple hours...this game sucks.I suck at this game."

There, fixed that for you.

To be honest, it really did take me a day or two for it to finally click and become as fun as the earlier games. It's hard to shake my Halo 3 instincts, but once I did it worked beautifully.

You really have to learn how to use the pistol. Fire like crazy at all but the longest distances to take down their shields, then wait to time the headshot. The AR isn't completely useless, but a pistol in the right hands can beat it any day.

You also have to learn how the new shield/melee system works to not get frustrated.

5/3/2010 6:30:02 PM

Quote :

"To be honest, it really did take me a day or two for it to finally click"

What? Unless you were in some closed beta, it's only been out for less than a day, and servers have been failing for a lot of that time.

5/3/2010 6:52:51 PM

People have been playing it all weekend. Bungie gave out codes to "friends and family" or something, and some Best Buy employees got them as well.

5/3/2010 6:57:21 PM

Oh, huh. Had no idea they were doing that.

5/3/2010 6:58:45 PM

bungie dropped a handful of access codes this weekend too. alas, i'm stuck waiting for the dl to finish... 16%

5/3/2010 6:59:41 PM

servers back up.

5/3/2010 7:26:05 PM

Damn, can't find my campaign disc, have the multiplayer but have somehow lost the other

anybody hook a brother up with a beta code

5/3/2010 7:51:17 PM

Quote :

"There, fixed that for you."

Yeah, that's it. It couldn't possibly that I don't like the game.

5/3/2010 8:05:18 PM

^^rofl yea right

5/3/2010 8:12:20 PM

frustrating so far but ive had some good moments. the gameplay does feel sluggish after months of mw2 though. i'm so-so about this game so far; while it is a beta, i don't expect monumental differences and that is a little disappointing. i have issues w games that still refuse to let you customize your controls. it feels like bungie took a page out of Apple's book on this one. suggested schemes are good and all but give me the option to make it better or worse for myself.

5/3/2010 9:01:44 PM

It still feels too much like the previous Halo's to me... which is a bad thing for me. Not that I really had planned on getting this game, but I just thought I would like to know how the game plays, and yeah its still bland and boring to me. I'll continue to play the beta however, unless someone wants to buy my ODST.

5/3/2010 9:23:57 PM

just played my first game

first impression is it's fun but i haven't played the other halos seriously before so who knows...

i felt that it was too difficult to know what was going on - if you're new to all this, nothing really tells you what's happening. i played a capture the flag match and didn't know whether our flag was being captured or we were doing the capturing. and when you kill someone it shows up in white text so tiny at the bottom left that you barely even notice it...

5/3/2010 10:14:29 PM

yea i agree with the three post above me. i am not a fan of the guns, the sluggish gameplay, the special skills, and generic levels. they said it would be more intense than the previous halos but i do not agree. also not having the vehicles on the beta doesnt help me like it. i have been playing battlefield bad company so that is how my level of intense is measured.

[Edited on May 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2010 10:14:54 PM

i fucking hate stockpile...

5/3/2010 10:38:24 PM

Meh... not a fan of the reticle bloom at all.

5/3/2010 11:06:07 PM

it is fun after getting used to it but "intense" doesn't even come close to being accurate. i too am disappointed with the lack of vehicles. i think if they just took the game speed and multiplied it by idk 1.5 it'd be a lot more fun IMO.

[Edited on May 3, 2010 at 11:55 PM. Reason : typos all day today]

5/3/2010 11:54:54 PM

For those of you that want VEHICLES, wait until Friday when the Invasion playlist unlocks.

That should also quiet you people complaining that this game is not intense enough. It looks crazy awesome.

Quote :

"i think if they just took the game speed and multiplied it by idk 1.5 it'd be a lot more fun IMO."

Have you played the Covy Slayer gametype? Make sure you vote for it when you see it next. You plays as Elites and move faster, jump higher, and can roll.

As for the normal gametypes, they intentionally slowed down the gameplay to make encounters last longer (so there is more skill involved and more opportunity for crazy awesome things to happen).

5/4/2010 12:18:51 AM

you're going to get a lot of arguments about that last part, just be prepared for that.

as far as intensity, it just doesn't seem like it should rely on vehicles, or using the least-common of the two races... from what i gather you'll mostly be playing as spartans.

i'll put it this way: for years i compared every shooter i played to halo games.. right now, i'm comparing reach to modern warfare. it may just be my personal preferences, i'm aware of that, but this thing's got some work left to be done. a beta will have issues (anybody that played today saw problems with servers and all that mess) but the gameplay (especially its speed) should be fairly mature at this point.

5/4/2010 12:25:36 AM

Quote :

"As for the normal gametypes, they intentionally slowed down the gameplay to make encounters last longer (so there is more skill involved and more opportunity for crazy awesome things to happen). "

I dont know about that, with slow shooting weak weapons there is much less awesome happening. In H3 you could get a double kill or triple kill with 1 BR clip, in this, without the overpowered grenades, these slowshooting weak rifles can barley manage a double, and that takes forever.

5/4/2010 3:37:11 AM

the br is the greatest weapon in any video game.

5/4/2010 4:07:30 AM

I think we have different definitions for crazy awesome.

The first time I got the Chopper Gunner killstreak in MW2 it was crazy awesome.
The 10th time I got it I was indifferent.

Every time I get a Killtacular in Halo it is crazy awesome. I feel like I've earned it.
Everyone is on an even playing field and even if someone gets the jump on you, a skilled player is able to either escape the conflict or turn it to his advantage.

There isn't any reward in getting 2-shot kills in a game of "I saw you first."

Oh, and I'd take the DMR/pistol combo over a BR any day. Once you learn how to time your shots that thing is a beast.

5/4/2010 9:39:52 AM

Played a Headhunter game last night in which I earned the medal "Skullamanjaro". I went from only 4 skulls to 25 and ending the game in about 5 seconds.

5/4/2010 11:26:25 AM

^haha...yeah I did the same thing...pretty crazy...but you dont get as much "CR" points or whatever as I thought you would..meh

5/4/2010 11:57:47 AM

While it can be frustrating to play ffa at times I've found that one thing has not changed from previous games. It's easy to win and level up in FFAs because while everyone else is worried about killing each other I can concentrate on holding the skull or scoring points.

5/4/2010 12:21:10 PM

Quote :

"Played a Headhunter game last night in which I earned the medal "Skullamanjaro". I went from only 4 skulls to 25 and ending the game in about 5 seconds."

Are you sure it was 25? I know that's the winning score, but if you cash in 10 skulls at once that ends the game as well.

If you did manage to get 21 skulls in 5 seconds...

5/4/2010 1:03:32 PM

covy slayer sucks hard.

dear bungie: your respawn system, after a decade of refinement, still blows. plz2fixkthx

5/4/2010 8:05:16 PM